Grieving families hold vigil outside New York City Meta office, demand more protections for kids

Grieving parents march to Meta NY headquarters, demanding change

They spoke about the deaths of their children – some as young as 11 – to cyberbullying, pills laced with fentanyl, sextortion scams and suicide-glorifying content. Read full story

Grieving parents march to Meta New York headquarters, demanding change

Over 150 people joined the largest rally by parents blaming social media for their children's deaths. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Grieving Parents March to Meta NY Headquarters, Demanding Change

They spoke about the deaths of their children — some as young as 11 — to cyberbullying, pills laced with fentanyl, sextortion scams and suicide-glorifying content.

Grieving families hold vigil outside New York City Meta office, demand more protections for kids

Families who lost kids to the dangers of social media stood outside the East Village office of Facebook's parent company Meta to demand change.

How can we protect children on social media?

We spoke to Ellen Roome, who travelled to the US to protest outside of the Facebook owner Meta - demanding better online protection for children. Her 14-year-old son Jools died in 2022, she believes, after an online challenge that went wrong. We also spoke to Jessica Smith, the online safety…

Parents who lost children to online harms protest outside of Meta’s NYC office

Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children who have suffered from online harm are still putting